Elon Musk Calls Out Instagram as ‘Envy Amplifier’

Elon Musk Calls Out Instagram as ‘Envy Amplifier’
Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Instagram logo in this picture illustration taken on Mar. 28, 2018. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Nicholas Dolinger
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk took aim at a major social media platform again, on Sept. 12, using Twitter to call out rival platform Instagram as an “envy amplifier,” echoing both his own previous remarks and the criticisms of other whistleblowers who have singled out Instagram as a uniquely toxic platform.

Musk directed his remarks in response to an unrelated clip posted by CEO Austen Allred (founder of the Lambda School), in which Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger argues that envy, not greed, is the primary motivator of human activity.